Windows CE 6.0 phones? or...? recomendations?
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With all the recent cellphone topics here in the lounge, I was thinking of getting a new phone myself. I was thinking something along the lines of a phone with Windows CE on it, or alternatively, a Nokia phone with their Symbian OS. I am a bit torn as to what I actually want more, but am slightly towards the Windows one. And I'd really like it to be a phone that supports CE 6.0 with all its features. Now, I've looked a while ago at the MS website for them, and really only found 1 or 2 such phones. And thats the US site, and nothing about them on the Canadian (me being in Canada, I had to check...). Are there any recommendations for what to get? I realize what I've said here is _really_ vague, but I really never had a cellphone with features beyond your typical Adressbook, basic menu with costly internet(the non-WAP version of internet, heh) and thats it. What I would _like_ to have, is a phone which I could use as a bit of a small PC with apps like outlook running, and ability to program things for it myself (and I dont mean the lame java progs you could do for you generic phones). I hope my question made sense, and thanks in advance.
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With all the recent cellphone topics here in the lounge, I was thinking of getting a new phone myself. I was thinking something along the lines of a phone with Windows CE on it, or alternatively, a Nokia phone with their Symbian OS. I am a bit torn as to what I actually want more, but am slightly towards the Windows one. And I'd really like it to be a phone that supports CE 6.0 with all its features. Now, I've looked a while ago at the MS website for them, and really only found 1 or 2 such phones. And thats the US site, and nothing about them on the Canadian (me being in Canada, I had to check...). Are there any recommendations for what to get? I realize what I've said here is _really_ vague, but I really never had a cellphone with features beyond your typical Adressbook, basic menu with costly internet(the non-WAP version of internet, heh) and thats it. What I would _like_ to have, is a phone which I could use as a bit of a small PC with apps like outlook running, and ability to program things for it myself (and I dont mean the lame java progs you could do for you generic phones). I hope my question made sense, and thanks in advance.
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please check here http://msmobiles.com/index.php/0,0,2.html http://www.htc.com/
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With all the recent cellphone topics here in the lounge, I was thinking of getting a new phone myself. I was thinking something along the lines of a phone with Windows CE on it, or alternatively, a Nokia phone with their Symbian OS. I am a bit torn as to what I actually want more, but am slightly towards the Windows one. And I'd really like it to be a phone that supports CE 6.0 with all its features. Now, I've looked a while ago at the MS website for them, and really only found 1 or 2 such phones. And thats the US site, and nothing about them on the Canadian (me being in Canada, I had to check...). Are there any recommendations for what to get? I realize what I've said here is _really_ vague, but I really never had a cellphone with features beyond your typical Adressbook, basic menu with costly internet(the non-WAP version of internet, heh) and thats it. What I would _like_ to have, is a phone which I could use as a bit of a small PC with apps like outlook running, and ability to program things for it myself (and I dont mean the lame java progs you could do for you generic phones). I hope my question made sense, and thanks in advance.
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Normal correction: Windows Mobile 6 != Windows CE 6.0. Windows CE is a box of bits, organized into components. Each component contains some Windows feature, for example the COM runtime, the graphics subsystem, C++ exception handling. Some of these components build on each other, and some are mutually exclusive (you can have either TrueType or bitmap fonts, for example, and either in-process-only COM or full DCOM). An OEM can create a Platform, which is a collection of components plus the necessary drivers to make those components work on their actual device. Windows Mobile is an umbrella name for a set of Microsoft-defined Platforms - in Mobile 5.0, they are Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition. For WM 6, they're renamed to 'Standard', 'Classic' and 'Professional' respectively. If implementing Windows Mobile, the OEM uses Microsoft's Platform definition, plus their own drivers, but they cannot change the set of operating system features. Windows Mobile is based on Windows CE bits, but they are not the same thing, and not necessarily matching version numbers: Windows Mobile 6 is based on Windows CE 5.0. To further confuse, Windows CE 6.0 was released before Windows Mobile 6. I work with off-the-shelf OEM Windows CE-based platforms, and with Windows Mobile-based devices. We generally prefer working with custom CE platforms as the Windows Mobile shell regularly gets in the way of 'locking down' the device, to prevent the user from running other programs (the device is generally used as a fixed single-function device). However, some OEMs limit which hardware is available with a custom Windows CE platform (example: Symbol MC90XX devices only support CE in the 'Gun' configuration, not the 'Brick' configuration) so we don't always get the choice.
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